French oil giant TotalEnergies announced last November that it aims to plant 40,000 hectares (or more than 98,000 acres) of trees in the Republic of the Congo. It’s an offset program for the ...

LAHORE: For several decades, large numbers of non-native trees and plants have been planted in urban afforestation projects ...

Researchers combined human and ecological factors to analyze the global scale of non-native tree species invasions. Human activity in hotspots of global trade, such as maritime ports, is linked to an ...

My childhood home in Vermont included a backyard that opened up to a trail through the woods. Perhaps it was an old logging or sugaring trail. After school, that road led me into a separate world, one ...

The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors argue that these carbon-offset plantations ...

Researchers from the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program are involved in the recently launched EU-funded Trees4Adapt project. The project focuses on tree-based solutions for climate ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. A new study of 5.6 million trees across 63 U.S. cities’ tree ...

There is much emphasis on the undesirable feedbacks where climate change drives biodiversity loss (magenta arrows feedback). Here, we highlight the contribution of an underutilized positive feedback ...

Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done. A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely ...